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Post by ukelelehip on Sept 20, 2008 20:18:33 GMT -5
Hey guys, I just discovered your mystery page on thomagination.com and I'm happy to clear one up for you: Mysteries Unsolved:
• Bleak Expectations (2007, August) Tom read for this (a pilot?) but was not in the final broadcast, as far as we can tell. Source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6Ll_vDUecAExactly. I shot that video of Tom. That was in 2006, April or May, I think. They recorded the pilot of that 4(?)-part radio play - I guess episode 1 - for the BBC to approve. I then 'ran into' Tom at a play a few weeks/months later ("Enemies" at the Almeida) and asked him what had happened to BE. He said it would take a while for the show to get greenlighted. Turns out the show wasn't recorded until the following year. Tom was not in the final broadcast, Anthony Stewart Head had taken over (must have been a scheduling conflict for Tom) so the pilot with Tom was never broadcast.
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Post by Redwine on Oct 3, 2008 15:25:50 GMT -5
Wow, Ukelelehip, that's very cool to know. I just loved the idea of Tom in that show -- after I heard it I had really wondered about which role he had been reading for. Oh jeeeeeez, Mr. Gently Benevolent -- how we would have LOVED to see (hear?) him in that role. So easy to imagine...
Has anyone else heard the series? It is profoundly silly, and Mr. G.B. is the best thing in it..so says Redwine.
remember, as Mr. Gently Benevolent says, "it's not as much fun if you enjoy it"...
(If anyone is interested in finding out more about how to hear it, PM me and Deb -- (since she's usually around more than I am) and I'll be glad to let you know how.... )
P.S. (added later) I just noticed there is a Series 2! Joy!
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Post by ukelelehip on Dec 1, 2008 12:55:18 GMT -5
I never listened to the final show but I do know he read several parts, one of them a baddie. I think if you listen to the youtube clip, at least one of the other roles he read was as an editor of some sort. Editing the autobiography of the main character???
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